hi it’s me tyler i’m sitting in my uncle’s apartment in new york as i write this but by the time you read this i’ll probably be at home or at a starbucks or something, i go there a lot.

this record came at kind of a weird time in my life, in the middle of recording it i got rejected from the one college i really wanted to go to, my relationship ended, and overall i just felt kind of like shit. because of that i almost didn’t finish it until dave hyland said “you’re almost done you might as well finish it”.

he was right.

so i did and now you can listen to it and maybe if you are going through a shitty time you can listen to it and feel like you aren’t totally alone. ultimately that’s my only goal with this stuff.

more importantly is the fact that while i was going through this whole process of feeling like shit i had a lot of really great friends and so here’s some of them: jason, jenna, peyton, amal, shea, izzy, darryl, hannah, derek, harry, and jenn. if i forgot you i’m sorry, i suck i know.

many thanks to joey burcham for making this record sound as great as it does and for dealing with me texting him 27 times a day asking when it would be done.

thanks to roberto cappocia for being a fucking dope drummer and an even dope-r (?) person.

thanks to luke waldrop for making the artwork look pretty and for also being a nice guy and for making good music in daddy’s beemer a good band you should listen to.

i write a lot of songs about being sad and anxious because a lot of times i feel that way but sometimes i don’t and that’s thanks to all of those wonderful people i just listed and also people that i probably forgot to list and also one specific person i didn’t list but they know who they are.

if you’re still reading this i want you to know that you can do anything you want regardless of money or support from others. i tracked this entire record in my basement and garage with my own gear excluding a 57 that i borrowed from john (thanks) but now i own one so i’ll never have to borrow it again unless i lose it or something which honestly i could see myself doing. but for real, fuck what other people say, fuck the system, go make a record.

alright enough rambling, i gotta go get some coffee so here’s some quick thanks to a few other people:

thanks to ms. g, my parents, ben, andrew, keegan, adrian, jacob, and kevin for a bunch of different stuff that i didn’t put here because it’d just be too long and it’s already long enough.

alright.

thanks to anyone who listens. you mean everything to me.

punk rock not guns.

fuck trump.

see you at the gig.

- t